March 2011

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March 29, 2011

How can you tell a “flat” story with no depth vs. a compelling story that captivates an audience? Count how many of your characters have...

Torture Your Hero

March 23, 2011

What makes a compelling hero? A hero is someone you respect, although you may not agree with them, and the surest way to gain someone’s...

Setup and Payoff

March 19, 2011

Every important event in your story has to be set up and foreshadowed. Otherwise your story can feel artificial and contrived. Take any bad movie...

Turning Novels Into Movies

March 15, 2011

Adapting a book to a screenplay almost always involves change. To see how various screenwriters tackled this problem, look at the classic science fiction story...

“The Karate Kid” remake

March 11, 2011

Hollywood loves remaking movies to update them for a new audience. Often times that means destroying what made the original so great in the first...

Why Movies From Video Games Suck

March 7, 2011

The formula seems perfect. Take a popular video game, turn it into a movie, and legions of video games will flock to see their favorite...

Consistency

March 2, 2011

When you start telling a story, you have to remain consistent. Being consistent promises to give the audience what they want. Being inconsistent means promising...

About Wallace Wang

First place winner in Scriptapalooza’s 2023 screenwriting competition for the supernatural horror screenplay titled “Nightmares From a Past Life”. Author of “The 15 Minute Movie Method”, “Story Starter”, and “Writing Scenes for Screenplays” in addition to over 50 computer books. Writer of “Three of a Kind”, a situation comedy produced by San Diego State University’s film class that won a student Emmy award. Designer of the board game “Orbit War”, published by Steve Jackson Games, that simulates satellite warfare in the near future.

The 15 Minute Movie Method